Hi,
we always use snapcraft.io project on ubuntu. It is very similar to portableapps.com project. I had read that they will develop their platform to work on Mac and Windows. Can anybody explain what the main differences is portableapps.com project and snaps?
- main similarities:
-- they include the libs of spesific app inside it's own dirrectory
-- they dont touch other directories on system
- main diff:
-- they dont use "user-home" inside app directory
Thank you
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Snaps is designed to make installing apps locally easy. Snaps are not portable or self-contained.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
But on their official site (snapcraft.io) writes:
"snap is a fancy zip file containing an application together with its dependencies"
"sandboxed, containerised applications isolated from the underlying system and from other applications"
"Just put all the files you need into a directory, use whatever subdirectory structure you want."